Great plugin, terrible performance

  • Great plugin, but mostly useless due to performance issues.

    1. Loads full images every time (only thumbnails are needed on 90% of pages). It should be possible to load full images only after click.

    2. Images don’t have srcset and sizes attributes (which even wordpress does by default).

    3. Plugin shows the loader until all images are loaded. As a result, loading heavier galleries (or even light ones, but with a poor connection) takes a very long time.

    Problem 1 and 2 result in a significant increase in the amount of data to be downloaded.

    So although the plugin is nice, I don’t use it very often.

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by goodoskyy.
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  • Plugin Author GalleryCreator

    (@gallerycreator)

    Very wrong statements. But you tried so hard, wrote so much ??

    Thread Starter goodoskyy

    (@goodoskyy)

    Can you elaborate on what you think is wrong statement?

    I really like your UX, but performance is a real reason why I can’t use your plugin.

    Your gallery block was loading for 3-10 seconds, while the default gallery block loads almost immediately.

    The problem with showing the loader until all pictures are loaded is critical. This is weird because I had lazy loading enabled.

    shereew

    (@shereewalker)

    I’m afraid I have to agree, it would be helpful to know why the above statement is incorrect for other people.

    Plugin Author GalleryCreator

    (@gallerycreator)

    @shereewalker `It seems to me that you, as the creator of this review, do not have the necessary experience to discuss web applications. Since if you have the experience to discuss such issues, then you should at least be able to use the commonplace Developer Tools in the browser. And if you know how to use them, then such a question and such reasoning as the “expert” above will not arise.
    But in short, exclusively for you, I can give a short script for loading my galleries:
    1. First, the main stream (tex, scripts, fonts, other media data) is loaded and only the preloader and JSON data of my gallery are loaded in the main stream.
    2. After the page is fully loaded, the gallery begins to form (images get into the body of the page). All this is done in order not to slow down the main thread.

    The gallery preloader spins until the main stream is loaded, and not images from the gallery.
    The situation with the size of thumbnails is a little more complicated, but it is not so important in this case.

    A person who wants to know something, first writes in the forum and asks questions, and someone writes a review without understanding the issue – such users do not make me want to discuss and some kind of dialogue.`

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